Word: reno
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...intelligence agency and given a new life as an assassin. In The Professional, set in New York City, his subject is a 12-year-old named Mathilda (Natalie Portman), the only member of her family to survive a criminal massacre. She turns to a neighbor for succor. Leon (Jean Reno) is an inarticulate fellow. He drinks milk by the gallon, tenderly cares for a plant that is his only friend and likes old Gene Kelly movies. He is devoted to his work as a "cleaner," a Mob hit man of rare talent...
Also named were two Law School graduates: Mancy-Ann E. Min, a White House budget official, and Ronald A. Klain, chief of staff to Attorney General Janet Reno. Business School graduates James Dimon can also be found on the roster of future leaders
...furor over Proposition 187, however, has obscured an anti- immigration campaign that may have just as much impact, but far sooner. Attorney General Janet Reno has decided to try to virtually seal off the 2,076-mile border with Mexico to illegal crossers. The U.S. Border Patrol has long maintained it could accomplish this if given a chance, but the patrol has always been underfunded and understaffed...
Though the timing of Reno's decision was clearly intended to help California Democrats in the November elections, most of whom opposed Proposition 187, it was more than just a campaign promise. The money is already flowing: $236 million has been allocated to the southwestern border for 1995, an increase of 25% from 1994. An additional 1,010 agents will soon be deployed, bringing the total to more than 5,000. Helicopters, night-vision scopes, ground sensors and computers are being brought in at unprecedented levels. When equipment has not been delivered, because of the glacial government procurement process, Reno...
...develop a global plan to combat growing international organized crime -- including more sophisticated police networks and legal systems for younger democracies. "In Europe, in Asia, in Africa and in America, the forces of darkness are at work and no society is spared," he said. But Attorney General Janet Reno and delegates from Britain, Australia and other countries immediately shot the idea down as too ambitious, saying countries should focus on national laws. Still, Russian officials --facing thefts of weapons-grade plutoniumthat have prompted fears about the growing power of organized crime -- said "no government alone" could fight the tide...